It was 38 years ago, when two naval engineers founded an organization specializing in marine surveying and ship consultancy and realized a lack of preventive maintenance in ships causing failures and massive costs with repairs.

This led the duo to create a new business within the firm to offer a wide range of expert technical services for managing preventive maintenance in ships and the naval industry. After realizing the opportunity to increase efficiency and drastically reduce costs in ship maintenance management, they extended its scope into other sectors where maintaining assets was critical—be it for efficiency reasons, maintenance cost control, or general safety of the facilities and the people working. The asset management firm, which is recognized as ManWinWin Software and institutionally known as Navaltik Management Ltd, specializes in the development and implementation of its computerized maintenance management software (CMMS). Dubbed ManWinWin, this CMMS caters to businesses across numerous domains including manufacturing plants, buildings, hospitals, hotels and transport and logistics companies. It is a flexible, cost-effective, easy-to-implement and simple-to-use solution for maintenance management and organization of assets. “We instituted ManWinWin Software in 1981 to enhance one of our biggest competitive advantages—the know-how and the experience we have in maintenance management,” begins Rodrigo Seruya Cabral, managing director of the Portugal-headquartered company. Today, prominent companies from more than 76 countries including General Electric, Essilor, Bosch Systems, Four Seasons and Danone use ManWinWin as their “go-to” maintenance management system for daily operations.

According to Cabral, one of the biggest challenges in the maintenance of assets is the people responsible for managing it. In many firms, the maintenance staff are not tech savvy, some are not even qualified and many see CMMS solutions as an additional burden or workload and resist the change. This is where ManWinWin Software’s user-friendly maintenance management solution begs to differ. By offering a variety of simple work-order management interfaces such as maintenance planning, practical scheduling of work orders, easy maintenance time management, and real-time control of planned costs versus real costs of maintenance work, the software makes it easy for the technicians to carry out maintenance operations.